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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree realize when she is in the vision?

2. What did Dab die of?

3. How does Dab seem to be doing, when Tree, M'Vy and Silversmith look into his room?

4. What does Tree see when she takes Brother Rush's gloves?

5. How does Tree get from the car accident back to the little room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tree and M'Vy's relationship like, at the end of the book?

2. What does M'Vy tell Tree about her brothers and Dab?

3. How is the relationship with Tree and Miss Pricherd different at the end of the book?

4. How does the narrator describe the relationship between M'Vy and Dab?

5. What happens when Miss Pricherd cleans Dab's room?

6. Describe Brother Rush's house, when Brother Rush takes Tree and Dab there.

7. Describe Tree's discovery of Dab's death.

8. What does Tree see when she takes off Brother Rush's gloves?

9. Why does Tree get upset when M'Vy says that it is time to go out?

10. What is Tree's nightmare?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Virginia Hamilton's writing in dialect? Does it make the story easier or harder to follow? Does it make you feel like the characters are more alive, or more like puppets? Where does the dialect really work? Where does it seem like it doesn't work as well?

Essay Topic 2

What does Tree get in return for the loss of her brother? Is she compensated, or does she simply lose him?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Ken and Silversmith. How are they similar? How are they different? What are they like as people? What are they like as father figures for Tree?

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